This is a block of 12 apartments and four other homes. Heavy rains did give constructions. Rescuers work in the debris searching for victims.
Police in southern India today arrested two directors of a construction company. Meanwhile Rescuers with shovels and torches searched through rubble for more than a dozen people were believed trapped in the second of two collapsed buildings in India, which have so far killed at least 20 people.
The apartment block of 12 floors that workers were building collapsed today during a thunderstorm with heavy rains on the outskirts of Chennai, the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Police said 26 construction workers were rescued from the rubble, and rescuers searching for another dozen.
Four workers died on the spot and four others died from his wounds in hospital, said police officer George Fernandes.
Thirteen injured workers were hospitalized, while six others were able to return home after receiving medical attention on Saturday night, said the agent.
Nearly 300 police and firefighters were removing the rubble overnight for survivors. With shovels, torches and metal bars, trying to reach workers trapped in the collapse.
Kanan, Indian police officer, reported that two directors of the construction company, Prime Sristi were detained for questioning and that the authorities have initiated an investigation into the cause of the collapse.
Before the Saturday, a four-story building in a poor neighborhood collapsed in New Delhi. Eleven people were killed and one survivor was hospitalized, said Fire Chief Praveer Haldiar.
Most of the buildings in the neighborhood of New Delhi where he produced the first collapse were built without permission and with inferior materials, Madhur Verma said the police.
The Press Trust of India said the collapse in New Delhi was caused by construction work on an adjacent lot.
Landslides are common in India, where demand for housing and the lack of regulation enable builders using inferior materials or adding floors without permission.
In April last year, 74 people died in the collapse of an eight-story building that was being built illegally in the suburb of Thane, Mumbai. It was the worst building collapse that has seen the country in decades.
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